Amazon S3

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).1

Amazon S3 provides cloud storage through web service interfaces (REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent). WinSCP uses the REST interface to interact with S3.

See the guide to:

• Connecting to Amazon S3 service.

There are also other storage services that support S3 API, like Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, Dell ECS, DigitalOcean Spaces, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Wasabi, Oracle Object Storage, etc. You can use WinSCP with these services as well.

For some examples, see:

• Accessing Google Cloud Storage bucket with WinSCP;
• Connecting securely to Backblaze B2 storage/bucket with S3;
• Connecting securely to Cloudflare R2 storage/bucket with S3;
• Connecting securely to Oracle Object Storage bucket with S3